{"id":1027913,"date":"2026-08-11T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027913"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:40:35","slug":"sony-tsmc-to-spend-6-3-billion-to-jointly-make-image-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/sony-tsmc-to-spend-6-3-billion-to-jointly-make-image-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony, TSMC to spend $6.3 billion to jointly make image sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Group and Taiwan&#8217;s TSMC plan to spend around 1 trillion yen ($6.32 billion) to jointly make next-generation microchips used in image sensors, the Nikkei business daily said \u200con \u2060Monday. <\/p>\n<p>A joint \u2060venture owned about 60% by Sony and \u200b40% by TSMC will start commercial production as \u200bearly as 2029 in southern Japan&#8217;s Kumamoto prefecture, the paper said. <\/p>\n<p>The two \u200btech giants said in \u2060May they \u200cplanned to form a joint \u200bventure \u200bin Japan to develop and \u2060manufacture next-generation image sensors, combining Sony&#8217;s \u200bsensor design expertise with TSMC&#8217;s \u200bmanufacturing and process technology strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Group and Taiwan&#8217;s TSMC plan to spend around 1 trillion yen ($6.32 billion) to jointly make next-generation microchips used in image sensors, the Nikkei business daily said \u200con \u2060Monday. A joint \u2060venture owned about 60% by Sony and \u200b40% by TSMC will start commercial production as \u200bearly as 2029 in southern Japan&#8217;s Kumamoto prefecture, the paper said. The two \u200btech giants said in \u2060May they \u200cplanned to form a joint \u200bventure \u200bin Japan to develop and \u2060manufacture next-generation image sensors, combining Sony&#8217;s \u200bsensor design expertise with TSMC&#8217;s \u200bmanufacturing and process technology strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027936,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027913\/revisions\/1027936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}